Word: named
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alas, FORTUNE for December at p. 69, trots out "Reverend Daniels." In the name of consistency, FORTUNE'S Editor might have given us "Honorable Hull" at p. 44 of the same issue, but he spared us that...
...part of Maury's cleanup, from signing bonds for vice case defendants. Mr. Shook having shaken up some other interesting combinations, emerged from his laboratory with several indictments, on charges of paying and conspiring to pay the poll taxes of others (a prison offense in Texas). Most interesting name on the list was Mayor Maverick...
...When the Nazis finally achieved undisputed power over Germany, one of the first things Hitler did was obtain a house for Evi in a fashionable district in Munich. It was listed in the directory under her own name: 'Wasserburgerstrasse 12; telephone 480844.' The Nazis considered it natural that Evi's years of faithful service should thus be rewarded, and her relationship to Hitler remained undefined. . . . She began referring to him as her betrothed. ... He also built for Evi a small house adjoining his own great estate at Berchtesgaden, and made a point of paying for this with...
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...skaters that brought down the house each night were Frick & Frack, a pair of Swiss comics. Frick & Frack have been a scream ever since they first skated together in their native Basle three years ago. Frick, whose real name is Werner Groebli, was a student at the University of Zurich. Frack, born Hansruedi Mauch, was studying at a business school. One holiday afternoon they set to burlesquing some of their pompous neighbors who acted as though they owned the rink. Onlookers tittered merrily...